Race, Ethnicity, And Nationality In The United States

This book is well suited for use as a text in the growing number of upper-division undergraduate courses in ethnic studies, sociology, American studies, and general education that are aimed at integrating knowledge about race and ethnicity drawn from diverse disciplines in the United States.

PAUL WONG is associate provost and director for the Center for Applied Studies in American Ethnicity at Colorado State University.

Introduction--- 1 Racism Today: Continuity and Change in the Post Civil Rights Era-- 2 Racial Identity and the State: Contesting the Federal Standards for Classification -- 3 From the Immigrant Paradigm to Transformative Critique: Asians in the Late Capitalist United States -- 4 The New Racism: Racial Structure in the United States, 1960s 1990s-- 5 "In Due Time": Narratives of Race and Place in the Western United States-- 6 A Formal View of the Theory of Racial Formation-- 7 Social Ecological Contexts of Prejudice Between Hispanics and Blacks -- 8 Racial Formation and Chicana/o Identity: Lessons from the Rasquache-- 9 Agribusiness Strategies to Divide the Workforce by Class, Ethnicity, and Legal Status 10 The Thinking Heart: American Indian Discourse and the Politics of Recognition-- 11 Virtual Defense: Cyberspace Counterattack Against White Supremacy-- 12 Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the United States: A Comparative, Historical Perspective